Six hour Molar

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From: Marga Ree
To: ROOTS
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 11:55 PM
Subject: [roots] a six hour molar

Believe it or not, this patient is an orthodontist, who referred himself to me, because he developed a pulpitis,
due to "overlooked" caries in tooth 27.  Before he came to me, another colleague had done the initial endo,
but he had only been able to locate 2 canals. He didn't spend much time either on his BU of cavit..........
It took me 1 session to make a decent BU of composite and locate the 2 other canals, 1 session to instrument
the extremely curved, long and calcified canals (DB and MB 1 and 2 were 25 mm) and the last one to fill them.
The patient is an extreme gagger, I just couldn't make decent rads, whatever I did, every trick I could think of,
he could not hold the rad without gagging.

We were all extremely relieved when we had finished the case, I don't envy the GP who is going to make the crown!

Marga




wow!  I have sweat on my brow just reading this ;-)) - Kendel

Dear Marga,
I am so glad this patient came to you and not to me :-) I would like to ask how you managed to keep patency and
get such wonderful deep shape on this very hard tooth ? I am always looking for your posts, this one is excellent
just like all the rest, - Thomas

Everytime I start getting cocky about how great my endo is, you post a case, miss marga, and I am immediately
humbled and brought back to earth. This thing is a thing of beauty.  I’m going to go back now and stare at the
final rad for a while longer.  I shudder to think what you might have accomplished under more favorable conditions.
Outstanding. - Gary